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UNITED STATES v. STATE

No. 73-2599.

495 F.2d 1250 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE OF TEXAS et al., Defendants. Eddie Mitchell TASBY et al., Intervenors, v. Honorable Dee Brown WALKER, Judge, etc., et al., Defendants, Robert V. Gillespie et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 10, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., Melvin Corley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., John Rich, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, D. C., Brian K. Landsberg, Chief Ed. Section, Civ. Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Michael Lowenberg, Woodrow M. Bonesio, Arlen D. Bynum, David C. Musslewhite, Dallas, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Edward B. Cloutman, III, Dallas, Tex., for other interested parties.

Edward W. Dunbar, Walter L. Irvin, Dallas, Tex., for Tasby, and others.

Walter Wolfram, Amarillo, Tex., for Potter County, Texas, NAACP.

Mario Obledo, San Francisco, Cal., Ed Idar, Jr., Jim Heidelberg, George Korbel, San Antonio, Tex., for GI Forum-LULAC.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Prior school desegregation decisions demonstrate the propriety of awarding counsel fees when the evidence reveals obstinate noncompliance with the law or the use of the judicial process for purposes of harassment or delay in affording rights clearly owed. See the cases cited by the Supreme Court in its recent decision in Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond (1974), ___ U.S. ___, 94 S.Ct. 2006, 40 L.Ed.2d 476.

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